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Pfirst film, rather successful first attempt for Victoria Bedos, co-screenwriter of The Aries Family with who The most beautiful to go dancing, signs a light comedy, punctuated by hits from the 1960s and 1970s, Polnareff and Vartan in the lead. The pitch? The torments of a teenager, Marie-Luce (Brune Moulin) brought up by her widowed father (Philippe Katerine) who runs a boarding house where a few facetious seniors (Pierre Richard, Guy Marchand, Firmine Richard) are rampant. To fit into a party where she is not invited, Marie, who is studying in class The Game of Love and Chance de Marivaux, decides to dress up as a boy, which will change a lot of things in her relationship with her father and a certain Émile, for whom she has a big crush. On the theme of cross-dressing and its surprises, The most beautiful to go dancing reveals a young 14-year-old actress, Brune Moulin, disturbing androgynous.
The most beautiful to go dancing, indoors.
Dialogue on a theater stage with an AI
In the book Life 3.0. Being human in the age of artificial intelligence (ed. Dunod), Max Tegmark, cosmologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is interested in the promises and dangers of artificial intelligence. In the room DSimon, a visual artist and a developer, Simon Senn and Tammara Leites, question our intimate relationship with digital technologies. On stage, the two performers strum behind their computers and in front of video screens. With didacticism sprinkled with irony, they explain how they invented via GTP3 and AI DSimon, the avatar of Simon Senn. Thus begins an exciting journey between actors and spectators. We discover the AI, its humor, its poetry, its bad faith and its lies. We investigate until we understand that this technological revolution that has occupied our minds for months can also be an inexhaustible source of creativity. DSimon subtly questions the effect of artificial intelligence on human beings emotionally and intellectually. A show that transports us to a territory as unknown as it is fascinating.
DSimon, at the Théâtre de la Bastille, until April 21, 2023 at 7 p.m., closed on Sundays. Duration: 1 hour. Online reservations.
Fall madly in love like the Jain singer
Because spring evokes renewal, the soft and golden light, the meetings on the terrace, nothing like Jain’s new album to be reborn to life, but above all to love! At 31, the Frenchwoman has a beating heart, and you can hear it. After the hits (“Makeba”, “Souldier”…), her performance at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the world tours (300 dates), she took a four-year break, living in a fisherman’s hut in Marseille, to come back down to earth (and the sea?). Yet it is towards a distant galaxy that she flies away in these new songs. Far from her hyper-energetic pieces with irresistibly dancing melodies with African, hip-hop, pop and oriental resonances drawn from the influences of her childhood spent between Congo, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Pau, she changes style and sound. Make way for the Beatles, disco, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Madonna… This third opus, still produced by his accomplice Yodelice, quite simply makes you want to love.
The Fool (released April 21 on Columbia)
Debate in freedom at the Paris Book Festival
Literature knows no borders: once again this year, the Paris Book Festival (21-23 avril 2023) opens wide its doors to more than 300 authors from various backgrounds, and particularly from Italy, a country in the spotlight, represented by Milo Manara, Erri De Luca, Paolo Cognetti or Donato Carrisi, but also by new writers , such as the Italian-speaking Somali Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, the journalist Stefano Montefiori or the phenomenon Beatrice Salvioni. More than 300 authors are expected at the ephemeral Grand Palais and in various high places of the city, including the great amphitheater of the Sorbonne, the House of Poetry, the Climate Academy, the Museum of Arts and Crafts or the College of Bernardins . Event Partner, Point gives you an appointment with its editorial staff for several high-level meetings. You will hear Giuliano da Empoli, the author of Mage du KremlinDaniel Pennac, Blandine Rinkel, Lola Lafon, Monica Sabolo, Jonathan Coe, Philippe Claudel, Sabyl Ghoussoub, Dany Laferriere or Marie-Hélène Lafon speak, through their books, of the march of the world.
No boundaries between genres, either, in this festival designed under the leadership of Vincent Montagne, Jean-Baptiste Passé and Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos who is interested in general literature as well as thrillers, youth or social science. And because reading is also sharing, the weekend will be dotted with workshops dedicated to writing or self-knowledge (for parents), expressing your creativity (for the youngest) , guided tours of Parisian monuments, concerts and readings…
The whole program can be found on festivaldulivredeparis.fr
Discover the incredible Faith Ringgold at the Picasso Museum
Lhe Picasso Museum presents… Faith Ringgold, whom neither you nor I had probably heard of until now, and yet! What a fascinating career that of the African American artist born in New York in 1930, raised in Harlem and a bearer of all the fights for blacks and women, in an impressive variety of practices. It all starts with American People in the early 1960s, a series focusing on relations between whites and blacks, marked by an ultra-violent street scene where the frightened gazes of the paralyzed characters do not leave you. Dietitle of the painting, is directly inspired in its composition by Guernicaand this is not the only link with Picasso. The French Collection imagine the life of an African American heroine arriving in Paris in the artistic world, visiting the Louvre (Dancing at the Louvre), having a picnic in Giverny and finding himself a model in… Picasso’s studio. The scenes unfold on these narrative quilts (traditional patchworks sewn by African women for their beds and of which her mother, a seamstress, had the secret). Posters with magnificent graphics and colors, in particular for the release of Angela Davis, installations as close as possible to life, sculptures returning to African heritage, the vitality and power of her creation challenge each room. The monograph is fascinating as Ringgold (92 years old) generously recounts a militant life and work with such strong echoes today.
Until July 2, Picasso Museum.
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Fall for the series relentless
She runs a lucrative indoor plant business, he struggles as an independent contractor. She is married and the mother of a little girl, he is single and lives with his lazy younger brother. Amy (Ali Wong) and Danny (Steven Yeun) don’t know each other and have nothing in common, except for a layer of neuroses and respective frustrations just waiting to explode. Their paths will cross in the parking lot of a supermarket, for the worst and nothing else: when Danny’s car almost hits Amy’s, a middle finger from the latter will cause a chase. between the two drivers on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The incident will turn short, but will cause a chain reaction that the perpetrators ofrelentless will patiently unfold over the ten episodes of this singular series full of very, very dark humor.
Written by Korean Lee Sung Jin, produced by A24, relentless aims with sniper acuity at the battalion of small daily exasperations that can drive anyone to crack and come out of the woodwork with a trigger. Under the LA sun, the story’s two antiheroes drag along like a weight of poorly digested respective pasts as well as a deep feeling of repressed loneliness. Depressed who ignore each other, eaten away by a dull anger, Amy and Danny will let themselves be drawn into a spiral of reprisals, leading to a soon uncontrollable crescendo of collateral damage. Vitriol satire of a certain Californian lifestyle, meticulous dissection of class conflicts and intra-Asian communities, relentless sometimes overdoes it and, as usual with Netflix, stretches its concept too much. But we remain addicted to the end, caught up in the sweet madness of the concept and the excellence of the entire cast. Special mention to the incredible Ali Wong as Amy, whose facial expressions, often framed in close-ups, betray a whole palette of bubbling and unsuccessfully repressed emotions. A real human geyser!
relentless, by Lee Sung Jin (10 x 55 minutes). Available on Netflix.
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